Dragaera

Great Weapons

Wed Sep 3 00:18:18 PDT 2003

Philip Hart wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Steven Brust wrote:

> > > Philip Hart writes:

> > >   On the subject, I would like to once again assert that Morrolan's 
>taking
> > >   Blackwand into the Paths, when he fully expects to be staying, is an
> > >   annoying flaw in _Taltos_, which if anyone can explain away I'd be
> > >   grateful.
> >
> > Just an oversight on my part.  I completely forgot that, when going into
> > great danger, someone who owns a powerful artifact that might save his 
>life
> > will naturally leave this artifact behind.  What was I thinking?
>
>While it seems like setting myself up as Job to continue the argument,
>Morrolan, to quote someone I tend to agree with, "fully expects to be
>staying."  The main use for Blackwand I can see would be to slay all the
>Gods and destroy the control system of the Paths so he could walk out
>alive.  As it happens, he makes no use of Blackwand per se.

I think that even if M did not think that he would be able to come back, he 
had a task to perform in the paths helping Vlad and therefore it would be 
useful to bring it, i.e. to fight against several dead dragonlords.

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